Testing, Testing: NASA’s New Supersonic Jet To Start Ground Trials

The Concorde completed its last transatlantic flight in 2003, but commercial aviation has kept looking for new ways to fly faster than the speed of sound. That chance just got one step closer to reality.

In August 2020, NASA took delivery of the first F414-GE-100 engine built by GE Aviation for its X-59 QueSST plane, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance aircraft, at 55,000 feet.